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>Principles for Dealing With the Changing World Order (Ray Dalio)
>picrel is feeling

Just read this: https://archive.is/RoV5w
The ironies abound: "snake eating its own tail", "it's fiction, lol", "muh victimhood", "the story’s realism [...] were things I had worked very hard to perfect", "I felt intensely protective of Margot".
The more the snake eats its tail, the better it gets, imho.

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And he doesn't intend to. He realised that nihilistic philosophy isn't worth persuing professionally, so he devoted his life to capturing the absurdity of the nihilistic experience instead. That's why his writings are so ironic, because he knows how ridiculous it is to be a nihilist, even though it's true.

pic related, it's the most accurate representation of Cioran's work that I know